By the end of the 1930s, the midtown blocks of Fifth Avenue had gone through a fast and decisive change. New Yorkers barely ...

At a time when Park and Fifth Avenues, Sutton Place, and Gracie Square were the ultimate addresses of wealth and power, ...

The Jay-Z and Alicia Keys track is 15 years old — and playing on a continuous, maddening loop for people who work in Times ...

A concert hall is a facility designed to generate indelible memories. This is where architects come in. Music can happen in a ...

The old bridge needs to swing open every time a ship passes and regularly gets stuck, jamming up the whole Northeast Corridor ...

Tishman Speyer’s vision for a theme park at the top of Rockefeller Center is complete. The city is weirder for it.

Astroturf, projector screens, and men in deep concentration over their swings are taking over Manhattan (and some of Brooklyn).

The best thing about this apartment are the bedrooms: big and bright, with south-facing and open city views. All the rooms in ...

Sydney Blumstein, a broker at Corcoran, was showing her client a loft on Washington Street in Dumbo. All was going well until they stepped outside. The street, with its uninterrupted view of the ...

Clearly, this is not your first time salsa dancing. I started when I was 14. I’d go to the park and hear the music, and the music made me move. I remember this young lady, Chachi. They’d swing ...

In 1979, at a house party in a walkup in Little Italy, the writer Floyd Byars took a look around. Out the back windows, instead of the typical view, there was a strange sight. Not trash, or trees ...

RFR Holdings has been struggling to hang on to the Chrysler Building after Cooper Union, which owns the land beneath the Art Deco skyscraper, moved last week to take control of the tower, citing ...